Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

The Wind that Blows, the Water that Flows, the Sun that Glows, are all proof that a Power exists. Believe and Experience the Universal Power.

Dream high and exceed your expectations.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

When the Appollonian strain took over in Greece, they made them into theaters and the original dramas.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.